Our Story

Leslie Goeres spent years in the corporate world — successful, driven, and increasingly certain that something was missing. Not in her life, exactly. In the city. In the culture. In the way people were taking care of themselves.

She began traveling. Twenty countries. The hammams of Morocco, where strangers share heat and silence and leave as something closer to neighbors. The onsen of Japan, where soaking is a practice, not a luxury.

The Temazcal ceremonies of Mexico and South America, where the sweat lodge is a ritual as old as the culture itself. The saunas of Scandinavia, where contrast therapy has been the prescription for mental health and physical recovery for generations.

Everywhere she went, the same thing was true: the most restorative spaces were communal ones. Wellness worked better in company. And yet at home, it was almost always solitary, expensive, and stripped of the ritual that made it meaningful.

She left a successful career in commercial real estate, came back to Renton, found a space on Lake Washington, and built what she had been searching for. Soak & Sage opened with a thermal pool, a cold plunge, and a belief that social wellness wasn’t a trend — it was the whole point.

Nashville is next. Four times the size. On the Cumberland River.
Just as deliberate.